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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have a buddy who learned English as a second language early in life and he has a fluent Irish accent. I've never been able to wrap my head around that one.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm Canadian in Ontario and the first five years of my life, all I spoke or heard was my cultural language Ojibway-Cree. I went to school where I learned English but continued to only mostly speak my language.

Then I spent an awkward period as a teenager speaking English with a Native accent ... a classic TV stereotypical Native accent and it was horrible. It took me about a decade to get over that phase, now I speak English as boringly as any Canadian. Not bad eh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Have you seen Reservation Dogs? I've heard that Willie Jack has a Canadian Native accent, is that the case?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's always so interesting to hear surprise accents.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I once took a short trip through the south of Germany near Nuremberg ... we were just on a random trip not knowing what we were doing in a rental car. We stopped at a gas station to get gas and got some help from an attendant, a young German teenager who spoke some English.

He talked to us in the weirdest accent I ever heard ... a combination of English with a German accent and a touch of southern Texan or southern American. He had grown up learning English from army personnel from the American US base nearby.